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If you are attending protests today - take pictures of the crowds. Discuss with someone who isn’t going to upload them to social media. Send the pictures immediately. Take video! Livestream! People need to know they are NOT alone.
If you aren’t going to participate IN the protests - record them. Take pictures. Get the pictures from your friends protesting and get them on the fediverse, social media.
We all have a part to play. Fascism depends on silence, ignorance, and isolation. Communication is a powerful weapon against it.
I see a lot of talk about “don’t post pictures of protests, AI tools follow social media to identify protesters through facial recognition and flag them for police repression/deportation/disappearance”…
And fuck. It’s possible. We have the technology.
And we still need to post the fucking pictures.
Because a protest that gets no publicity may as well not have happened.
And if that comes with some personal risk, well, American liberals are learning what their grandparents knew when fighting for civil rights, and what anarchists and anti-war protesters and Palestinian activists never forgot. First they ignore us, then they laugh at us, then they fight us. Political activism is not safe.
But it’s necessary.
And on the other hand, please use your brain about what to post, because there’s no reason to make it too easy for the surveillance state.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
That’s a fair point! You can censor faces! It’s not hard! Just open up paint, put a black oval on the face!
Save it as a jpeg. Voilà ! They can’t reconstruct that.
No Face No Case 🤷🏻♂️
So thats something like 84 protests per day. I really wonder what march looked like tho, im expecting there to be a pretty sharp upturn in the curve. Still this is not that much considering the situation.
The revolution will not be incentivized
There’s plenty of incentive, what the fuck
Live streamed!
The Ukrainian revolution was live streamed.
That’s likely the solution–if the media won’t do it’s job, the people will have to do it for them. Luckily nearly everyone has cameras nowadays, so that’s a start
That’s why they destroyed twitter and are attempting currently to do the same to reddit.
